The Best Podcast

Over the last few days, I watched the new Netflix series called The 3 Body Problem. It led me to some important reflections and realizations about myself, which were all quite independently of the contents of the series itself but nevertheless were important for me. So here I am now, sharing those reflections with you. Thank you for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is about the value of getting out of our normal environments, temporarily changing the places we place our attention. Even though there is a small hump we have to pass for us to recalibrate our attention, the clarity on the other side proves it worthwhile to climb. I hope you enjoy this episode and perhaps resonate with what I share. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

In today’s podcast, I describe what I think of as real thinking, which is so rare to come across nowadays. And I get it, because I struggle with it too, as much as I strive toward more thinking in the category I define here. It takes discipline, focus, and coordination to facilitate it. I hope you find it to be a valuable insight. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is an answer to a question posed during my walk with Gabi today. Many people early in life aren’t sure which path to follow and which decisions to make to live a good life. I provide some insights into this, both connected to value. One is personal values and the second is becoming valuable to others. I hope this episode serves you well! Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is inspired by a recent conversation with a colleague about a goal I had for my life right before I turned eighteen. I reflected on that goal and how I relate to it today, which I thought was useful to share here. I hope you think so, too. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

In my experience, we rarely take the time with friends and people close to us to talk about our work and the quality of that work, despite how much weight it carries in our lives. It’s much more sexy to talk about politics, exercise, the news, and other people. I dig into this topic in today’s podcast, which I hope brings you value in some way. As always, thanks for listening. Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is about just how little we know. My wife frequently enriches my perspective by showing me a very different angle from which I can look at situations, which makes my understanding much more complete. I discuss what this has taught me, along with some additional reflections on the pros and cons of certainty. I hope you find this to be useful. As always, thanks for listening. Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

On the way home from the gym today, I ran in the rain to get back for the last half of my trip back. So much came to me in those few minutes of life, so I wanted to digest it by sharing it here. I hope you find some value in it. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

In a recent conversation with some friends, we got into talking about what politics is and how most people think about politics. My perspective diverged significantly from what is considered the norm, so I wanted to share it here to see if it resonates with you all. I hope it does. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

I haven’t posted on social media in 13 months. As I took a long flight last weekend, I took some time to take stock of what has happened over that time span. That reflection resulted in this piece, which I share with you today, along with a request at the end. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a stream of consciousness recording. As I sit in the peace and quiet of my family’s home in upstate New York, I reflect on the things I appreciate about being here, along with the things I’ve come to appreciate more about other places. I also reflect on the beautiful relationship I’ve developed with my wife, who I dearly miss at this moment. Thank you for listening and spending this time with me. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is short and sweet. We often forget about the foundation when moving through the many things life throws at us. This podcast is a reminder to recalibrate and come back to the basics, especially during our most challenging of moments. I hope this message provides value and comes at the right time for you. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast starts with some reflections on my trip home to Upstate New York after being away for nearly a year. Then, I discuss my reason for coming home and share the eulogy I wrote for my grandmother after she passed away. Thank you for listening. I hope you found some value and took something meaningful away from her story. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a special one, which also comes as a break in the action from my quarterly reviews. Gabi and I sit down to talk about our one year of marriage. We chat about why it works, ways we’ve improved, challenges, and the highlights of the past year. I hope you enjoy it and find some value in what we share here. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

After a conversation with some close friends yesterday, a topic stuck out to me that I wanted to share. It’s a question that always makes its way back into my orbit, so I wanted to take some time to better articulate some thoughts on the path from where you are to where you want to be. I hope you find some value in it and can apply it in some way to your life. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

It’s hard to end friendships as an adult. The most common ending is one that is not deliberate. Friendships slip away with no conclusions or final conversations. It’s a new reality that suddenly sneaks up before our very eyes. I talk about my experience with this here, which I hope you find to be useful in some way. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is about the psychological experience of running. But not just any running. Running by yourself with no music or external stimuli. Just you, body and mind, and the earth. Can you handle being alone with yourself for that long? What’s the value of it? I share my experience and why I think it’s so valuable, along with parallels with and divergences from meditation. I hope you enjoy it and find some value in what I discuss. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is about a study by Kyle Mandsager and colleagues from 2018. The findings simply knocked my socks off when I first came across them, so I wanted to share some details about the study with you here. I also take some time to discuss the findings implications and share what you can do about them. As always, thank you for listening. Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

My wife and I had a minor conflict today about checking the weather. Despite it seeming like a topic one can just blow off without a thought, it connected to some really important values in our relationship, so I wanted to discuss it here. I hope you find some value in this perspective. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a description of a recent exercise I started and am in the middle of completing. In the past, my self-evaluations tended to be through my own lens and analysis. This year, I decided to flip the script and gather others’ points of view. I hope you find value in the exercise I describe and perhaps apply it to your life in some way. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is about the best mentor I have ever had. We’ve now been working together for nearly 9 years, and his support has been persistently of the utmost quality. I share more about our relationship here, along with why I wish more people could experience what we’ve shared. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is about a conversation I had on new years that resulted in a blank stare in return. I’ll leave you to listen to find out the topic that led to this reaction. I hope you find some value in what I share here. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is about a piece of feedback I received from my wife yesterday. Trying to optimize across so many fronts can be draining sometimes, even as we strive toward greater wellness and well-being. When we step back to ask what the optimization is for, it is precisely in the pursuit of those outcomes. How can we toe this line and keep ourselves well with high expectations? This is the question I entertain here, for which I hope you find value in hearing my take. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is one that is very “in the moment.” It’s a reflection on the way my day rapidly changed with just a couple of actions - deep focus on a task that meant something to me, along with a long run. It’s stunning to me how our mental states can change so much through a small number of choices we make, which I hope you can grasp and feel in this episode. Thank you so much for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Negative internal dialogue has a silver lining if we allow it to shine through. In fact, it can do a lot for us, even more than neutral or positive internal dialogue in many cases. I share more about this here, along with how we can make it helpful to us, which I hope you find valuable. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

In today’s podcast, I share my experience starting the new year at Copacabana beach with my wife, her family, and some good friends of ours. It was truly a spectacle. Given New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day are always quite distinct days, there is a lot to learn if we stop to take them in on the other side, which is what I do here. I hope you find some value in the episode. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is an intense one, so I hope you listen close and let this one sit with you. I talk about what I’ve taken from writing everyday for the last three years and the quarterly review process I have embarked on. It has brought me so much more than I expected, which I’m sure you will hear in my voice. Thank you for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

This year, I spent Christmas away from home and away from my family for the first time. It was a very new experience for me and it opened my eyes to a few things, which I wanted to take some time to reflect on and share. I hope you enjoy it and find some value in my words. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

By the title, you might be asking if I’m running out of topics to talk about on the podcast. I ensure you that is not the case. Instead, observing the self as we orient ourselves around and approach mundane tasks, such as cleaning a bathroom, can be quite informative if we pay attention. I share a personal experience here, which I hope does a good job of showcasing this point. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast digs into some observations I’ve had about social dynamics, particularly relating to the gym. We see the same people, day after day, week after week, but we never say hello and connect with them. I explore why this might be the case and my observations of this behavior in my own experiences. Perhaps you’ll find it interesting to ponder. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is about randomness and the massive role it plays in our lives. It’s present in the big stuff, the little stuff, and everything in between. I hope you enjoy what I present here and find it to be thought provoking. I appreciate you taking the time to listen. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Gabi returns to the podcast today for the who-knows-th time to discuss the question of: “What is a rich life?” I really enjoyed the conversation, as it was fun and extremely wide ranging. I hope you enjoy it, too. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

In my return from quarterly review land, I discuss the value of listening to debate, but not just any kind of debate. In this episode, I talk about the nuances of that point, along with the benefits I think it brings to people’s lives. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.